[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux boot floppy -- making it without windows or dos

[Burton Strauss]

If you are getting bad blocks when you create boot disks on new, reasonable
quality disks, then the problem is most likely NOT the disks, but the
drive...

Try a new Floppy drive.

-----Burton
 

-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On Behalf
Of Peter A. Koren
Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 1:39 PM
To: Discuss NTLUG
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Linux boot floppy -- making it without windows or
dos

I've got a problem. I just bought the Mandrake 10.1 powerpack set and want
to upgrade. But my computer has a bug and will not boot off of the CDROM
because of some error, probably a faulty BIOS, even thought I set the BIOS
to try the CDROM first. So I am stuck with using a floppy disk to boot. I
have been doing this for years on my ABIT BP6 based system.

The problem now is that all of my old floppy disks have aged into
uselessness and I could not install windows or dos which I have always used
before for just one thing -- having rawrite create a boot disk for linux
using the proper image file on the linux distribution CD. Using the dd
command under linux does create files on a blank formatted brand new floppy,
but it also creates bad blocks and I don't want to bother trying to install
Linux with a copy method that is so buggy. Is there a solution to getting
the floppy boot method working without resorting to Windows? In any case, I
do not want Windows on my machine now that my wife uses Linux. That was a
hard enough battle and I do not want to go back.

-- Pete


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